Pam McVety: Climate change is indeed a crisis and is very real

7:24 PM,
Jan. 11, 2013

Pam McVety

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Pam McVety
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Being a good debater does not mean your facts or conclusions are correct.

That was the case Tuesday night, when James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute, debated our own Dr. Ray Bellamy, a longtime physician in our community on the reality of climate change.

Taylor is among the best that money can buy. He is paid by the Heartland Institute, a prominent free-market think tank that promotes skepticism about man-made climate change. He is a confident, articulate debater and writer who cherry-picks information and is skilled at providing misinformation ...